NATIONAL SERVICE WILL NOT MEAN CONTROL OF MANPOWER

Wanganui Chronicle, 1 June 1949, Page 4

NATIONAL SERVICE WILL NOT MEAN CONTROL OF MANPOWER

AUCKLAND, Last Night (PA).— When asked lor a definition of National Service on which the referendum is to be taKen, the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, said he had no statement to make at present. He would make one as soon as possible. In answer to another question. Mr Fraser said national service would not mean control of manpower in industry. He had made that quite clear at the Labour Party conierence last week, he added. Mr Fraser was occupied with departmental business this morning. In the afternoon he went to Wnenuapai to farewell two delegates to the dairy products conference in London, the chairman of the Dairy Products Marketing Commission, Mr W. Marshall, and the Government representative, Mr F. P. Walsh, who left by air for America. Later in the afternoon he attended a function at Government House for blind and disabled servicemen. He left tliis evening for Hamilton to attend the Waikato Winter Show.